The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching the pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 season for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortene…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:28PMDarko Tresnjak thought back to November 2016, when he headed to the acclaimed modernist home designed by Charles Gwathmey in Manchester that he had purchased a year earlier with his husband.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:20PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Fabiano was singing at the Metropolitan Opera when a key mix-up occurred....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:21PMNEW YORK (AP) -- When conductor replacements are needed, opera companies and orchestras scramble in a game of musical podiums, with one change causing a cascade....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:19PMMark Campbell wants people to issue warnings when they leave his operatic adaptation of "The Shining."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:58AMNEW YORK (AP) -- James Taylor thought back four decades to his Carnegie Hall debut and said it was "the sort of cultural sign" that he had made it to a certain level…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:58AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Francesco Anile got to make his Metropolitan Opera debut in a T-shirt, blue jeans and sneakers. With 5 minutes notice....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:04PMNEW YORK (AP) -- James Levine will retire as the Metropolitan Opera's music director at the end of this season because of Parkinson's disease, ending a 40-year run t…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:41PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Stephen Sondheim sounded enchanted....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:50AMBefore dying on stage, the lead singers in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette" get sick. Really. In startling frequency.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Luca Salsi was at the corner of Broadway and 72nd Street, taking a walk with his wife, when he got a call from Alvaro Domingo, son of the famous singer....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:37PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera has commissioned Nico Muhly to compose "Marnie" for its 2019-20 season, based on Winston Graham's 1961 novel that was adapted into an Alfred Hitch…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:20PMNEW YORK (AP) -- And now for something completely different....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:14PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Kristine Opolais got to bed at 5 a.m. Saturday after singing her first "Madama Butterfly'" at the Metropolitan Opera and going out for dinner....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:48PMNEW YORK (AP) -- James Levine will resume a full schedule of six productions at the Metropolitan Opera next season, conducting on opening night for the first time since 2010 following hi…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:14PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Andre Previn's opera version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" finally made it to New York - 15 years after its world premiere....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:44PMNEW YORK (AP) -- For all the bright lights and razzle-dazzle of the Las Vegas locale, the most illuminating stretches in Michael Mayer's showy new production of "Rigoletto" at the Metrop…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:08PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera's revival of its 2 1/2-year-old production of Bizet's "Carmen" was memorable for the debut of conductor Michele Mariotti and for performances by A…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:58AMNew York City Opera will return to its roots at New York City Center in March after a 48-year absence.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:29AMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera has abandoned a new production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" by director Luc Bondy, whose grim version of Puccini's "Tosca" provoked intense booing when …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:39PMNEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Opera has declared an impasse in contract negotiations with unions for its musicians and singers and is threatening to present its abbreviated season witho…
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